React Multiline Clamping

React component that uses the css line clamping to truncate given text in specified lines.

Codesandbox demo

Features

• 🎉 Uses the css line clamp property
• 😱 It works both with plain text and HTML/Components
• 💥 Integrated show more/less behaviour
• 👂 Listens to text and lines changes and responds accordingly
• ⚙️ Easy-to-use component API
• 🌳 Tiny size, only 1.4kb

Installation

npm install react-multiline-clamp

Basic example

import Clamp from 'react-multiline-clamp';

const MyComponent = () => {
    return (
        <Clamp withTooltip lines={2}>
            <p>Multiline text</p>
        </Clamp>
    );
};

With show more/less behaviour

import Clamp from 'react-multiline-clamp';

const MyComponent = () => {
    return (
        <Clamp
            lines={2}
            maxLines={6}
            withToggle
            showMoreElement={({ toggle }) => (
                <button type="button" onClick={toggle}>
                    Show more
                </button>
            )}
            showLessElement={({ toggle }) => (
                <span type="button" onClick={toggle}>
                    menossssss
                </span>
            )}
        >
            <p>Multiline text</p>
        </Clamp>
    );
};

API

Name	Type	Default	Description
children	Element		The expected element to which the ellipsis would be applied. It could be plain text or any HTML/Component
lines	Number	2	The number of lines we want the text to be truncated to
maxLines	Number	8	The maximum number of lines we want to show after clicking on showMore button
withTooltip	Boolean	true	Indicates if we want the text to have a tooltip title
withToggle	Boolean	false	Indicates if we want to have the show more/less actions
showMoreElement	Element	More	Element that triggers the show more action
showLessElement	Element	Less	Element that triggers the show less action
onShowMore	(isExpanded) => Boolean	() => {}	A callback function that gets calls every time we click on the show more/less buttons. It returns whether the text is expanded or not (Boolean)

See browser support

Author: Mikel Parra [email protected] | http://github.com/mikelpmc